Re: Why?!

[Sourcerer <vagans@icubed.com>]

On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Charles Collicutt wrote:

> Hi,
>    Before I start I'd like to make clear that this is *not* a flame or a
> troll, I genuinely want to know the answer to my question as I would quite
> like to continue using linux.
>    Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been
> told that linux is much better and I believed it and have been faithfully
> using linux (apart from the occasional trip into a win95 partition to play
> games) from then on. I've come to the conclusion that yes, as a server on
> a network, linux is much more stable and you don't need to reboot often.
> But for the home user, why bother?

> Linux is so much harder to set up

That's why I use it instead of MSWin...so much harder, because it is more
configurable, i.e., I get the computing environment I want. It works the
way I work, because that's how I designed it.

And because ascii rulz, okay?


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